Knowing God and Becoming Intimate With Him - Sinothile Aphane

📖John 14:8-11“Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.”To know God we need to know His wordWe need to study the word of GodWe must pray 🙏🏾 There’s a different between being intimate with God or being familiar with Him Israel got familiar with feasts of God and lost relationship with HimThey did meaningless activities that are routine without impact📖Amos 5:21-27 NKJV““I hate, I despise your feast days, And I do not savor your sacred assemblies. Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them, Nor will I regard your fattened peace offerings. Take away from Me the noise of your songs, For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments. But let justice run down like water, And righteousness like a mighty stream. “Did you offer Me sacrifices and offerings In the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? You also carried Sikkuth your king And Chiun, your idols, The star of your gods, Which you made for yourselves. Therefore I will send you into captivity beyond Damascus,” Says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts.”They decided to have other Gods besides God Almighty If you take a step of obedience God take more steps📖Psalms 27:8“When You said, “Seek My face,” My heart said to You, “Your face, Lord, I will seek.””Your face Lord I will seekKnow Gods character, will and word